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Kayleigh Skinner covers education, government, politics and how they intersect and impact the lives of people in Mississippi. She is also curates The Bell, Mississippi Today’s monthly education newsletter. Kayleigh has a bachelor’s in journalism from the School of Journalism and New Media from the University of Mississippi. She has been recognized as a member of the 2018 class of the ProPublica and Ida B. Wells Society Data Institute and a member of the 2016 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Journalism Award-winning team.
Lieutenant governor says increased revenue collections will allow him to raise teacher pay and invest in other programs without raising taxes. Attorney General Jim Hood said Reeves “had eight years to do it and he has not done it.”
With accountability results for the 2018-19 now official, Mississippi Today looks at the numbers behind the improved results.
The state board of education will vote later this week to adopt the school ratings for the most recent academic year
Attorney general says the program would cost between $6 million to $8 million.
Mississippi’s ninth charter school gets OK to open in Greenwood
Data from the Mississippi Department of Education shows the educator workforce has held steady at 80 percent female the last five years.
The court upheld a lower court’s decision that the plaintiffs “failed to demonstrate” that charter schools are funded in an unconstitutional way
After repeated complaints about the toll testing takes on students and teachers, the state considers nixing a high school assessment
Book, set in the future, outlines the lengths people can go to survive in a hostile culture and climate
State schools chief touts four straight years of improvement
La presidenta de MAE: “Que un evento tan horroroso ocurra en el primer día quiere decir que todos los afectados—estudiantes, educadores, administradores, comunidades enteras—siempre asociarán el primer día de escuela con miedo e inseguridad.”
MAE president: “To have such a horrific event occur on the first day means that everyone affected—students, educators, families, administrators, entire communities—will forever associate the first day of school with fear and uncertainty.”
El fiscal de Estados Unidos Mike Hurst dijo que ICE no contactó a nadie a fuera de las autoridades policiacas antes de la redada “….a causa de la naturaleza de la ejecución de órdenes judiciales federales de registro.” Mientras tanto, los miembros de familia y amistades esperan y anhelan que se liberen a más personas.
U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst said ICE did not contact anyone outside of law enforcement ahead of the raid “…because of the nature of executing federal criminal search warrants.” Meanwhile, family members and friends wait and hope more released.
Un día después de que cientos de personas fueron detenidos en varios plantas procesadoras de alimento en el centro de Misisipi, organizaciones locales, iglesias, y miembros de la comunidad ya están trabajando a desarollar planes de ayuda para los efectados, pero planes finales no todavía existen.